Poetry

Featured Poem

Harvest

Even the gleanings

from ground level

taste like dessert.

Fingernail sized

tomato fireworks

explode in a red to rival

Arkansas clay.

Earth yields

its brightest and best

last gasp

of tart and taste and bite.

Every ruffled shade

of autumn available

in a nasturtium,

yearning to serve

as a radish substitute,

commingled with greens

supple and soft,

a salad that melts on

your tongue like

open faced grilled cheese.

Blessed October,

toasted by a cup of fire.

Between Midnight and Dawn

A Literary Guide to Lent, Holy Week and Eastertide

Paraclete Press – 2016

This collection features Biblical readings, essays and poetry to compliment and enhance your Lenten journey. Poetry becomes more essential as I grow through the seasons of life. I wrote the poem featured in this book, “Miserere,” after visiting the Benedictine Monastary in Florence, Italy. This guide was lovingly created and arranged by Sarah Arthur.